Too many restaurants sheds with no daylighting for corner. Makes it dangerous to drive and to walk there

This intersection needs traffic calming. There are a lot of pedestrians milling around to enjoy the area and get in line for the museum, but cars try to speed through the light from every direction (coming from Central Park and turning left / going straight, coming south on CPW). As a biker there is not much space to wait at the light because pedestrians are trying to get around the cars.

This area in front of Fairway is consistently full of double and sometimes triple parked cars and trucks; these trucks are dropping off food, and the cars are personal grocery shoppers that leave their cars idling while inside shopping. It makes the crosswalk very unsafe as it is impossible to see around the two lanes of stopped traffic in order to see the one lane of moving traffic.

Too many restaurant sidewalk sheds. They have become unsanitary with lots of illegal construction on the streets and the sidewalk. Rodent issues and causes traffic jams especially when on both sides of the Columbus Avenue. There’s only 2 lanes left . The restaurants are doing great business even without the unregulated and unkept sheds which have in some cases just been used as an illegal location to store garbage. A simple inspection of this block will show all the obvious issues. There is plenty of seating inside the restaurants. The ironic thing is that while they are unsightly and cause of traffic, the sheds in the daytime rush hours are usually completely empty.

Pedicabs from Central Park are routinely left on W 73rd between CPW and Columbus. They take up valuable car parking spots. They also are never moved during street cleaning.

While any parking should serve residents, as noted by someone repeatedly on this map, an overwhelming majority of residents do NOT own cars. On this block, 80-90% of our neighbors who actually live here on a regular basis do not own cars. Smarter use of the curbs would be a wonderful benefit to a much bigger percentage of local residents than parking spaces.

While any parking should serve residents, as noted by someone repeatedly on this map, an overwhelming majority of residents do NOT own cars. On this block, 80-90% of our neighbors who actually live here on a regular basis do not own cars. Smarter use of the curbs would be a wonderful benefit to a much bigger percentage of local residents than parking spaces.

While some residents may have purchased cars during the pandemic and while parking should serve residents, as noted by someone repeatedly on this map, an overwhelming majority of residents do NOT own cars. On this block, 90% of my neighbors who actually live here on a regular basis do not own cars. If we have parking, it would be great to serve residents first, but smarter use of the curbs would be a wonderful benefit to a much bigger percentage of local residents.